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Noam Chomsky hates America just as much as Osama Bin Laden did, he works just as tirelessly as Bin Laden ever did to harm the country, but he doesn’t kill people. Instead, Chomsky pushes vacuous real-time, historical hate fiction that convinces people to despise America. Giving him a peace prize for that is like giving […]
Obscenely overpriced product? Check. Ridiculous discount?: Check. Product description riddled with grammatical errors and pretentious, unintelligible language? Check. Customer “reviews” that are worth their weight in gold? You betcha. I hereby present the Plodes RECH reDO Lawn Chair – Black Leather with White Stitching and Cherry Arms. This isn’t just any old lawn chair. This […]
Just a few stories from the past week, some of which I blogged about, and some of which I didn’t. Click the link under each picture if you’re not sure what the hell I’m talking about. Link: Pundit Press. Link: Hot Air. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: TrogloPundit. Link: Charlie Sykes. Link: Smitty. Link: Grandpa Steve. Link: […]
The Official White House website has a questionable new addition. When you land on the White House main page a notice fills your screen asking you kindly if you’d like to supply them with your email address so that they can send you “periodic updates from President Obama and other administration officials.” Well, isn’t that […]
Here’s Michael Hiltzik, columnist for the Los Angeles Times: To be charitable, the free-market rationale for sticking enrollees with more of the bill is that as consumers with “skin in the game” they’ll be more discriminating about the services and treatments they demand, thus holding down costs. Unfortunately, the consumer-driven model has been widely discredited: […]
According to Wharton marketing professor David Reibstein, not very.
Charles Krauthammer‘s substantive reasons that Sarah Palin can’t win in 2012: I think it would make no sense for her to run. I think her chances of winning the nomination are small. The chances of winning the general election are probably nil. I think, for the same reasons you articulated, 60 percent negatives. That’s almost […]
Good news! He’ll do what he does best: lie and Blame Others After months of relatively robust job growth, President Barack Obama and his team must now reckon with the reality that the economy probably won’t be on firm ground during the 2012 campaign – and that he must temper some of the Morning-in-America optimism […]
Joe D. is first, of course, but the others are quite: interesting. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.
I’m revising my position. After reading this well-thought-out article linked by our blogger friend in New Mexico, I have experienced a spiritual awakening, the scales have fallen from my eyes, and I can see Sarah Palin is a thoroughly inadequate candidate. We’ve got to do something to make this woman go away before she scuttles […]
I missed this Paul Krugman column earlier this week: Against Learned Helplessness …on both sides of the Atlantic, a consensus has emerged among movers and shakers that nothing can or should be done about jobs. Instead of a determination to do something about the ongoing suffering and economic waste, one sees a proliferation of excuses […]
One of the things that the left has lighted upon to explain away the behavior of Democrat Congressman Anthony Weiner with his Weinergate Twitter mess is typical of the way leftists try to misdirect a debate away from the failings of their own side. Instead of keeping focus on the failures of Weiner to put […]
Good thing I’m not looking for a job at these places. Samples: Citigroup: “What’s your strategy at table tennis?” Towers Watson: “Estimate how many planes there are in the sky.” Jane Street Capital: “What is the smallest number divisible by 225 that consists of all 1s and 0s?”
News for liberals: he hasn’t been able to do anything in the long term, either. He’s had over two years. He had a compliant Congress for the first half of his term. What they’ve done hasn’t worked. But, of course, what the Liberals are worried about is not an actually better economy, but, an economy […]
“Riverside’s Hillcrest High: What if they built a school and nobody got to go?” A $105 million high school–yes,: $105 million–will be unused for at least one year. Walter Russell Mead plays taps. (And proposes a solution I haven’t seen before–split the state up into five parts. Interesting.) And here’s one new, interesting reason for Cali’s […]
The Peter G. Peterson Foundation invited six organizations to detail what actions the U.S. government should take to restore fiscal soundness. Here are the results.: I vote for the Heritage plan. Cross-posted from Newmark’s Door.
And here we go again Presidential hopeful Mitt Romney broke with Republican orthodoxy on Friday by saying he believes that humans are responsible, at least to some extent, for climate change. “I believe the world is getting warmer, and I believe that humans have contributed to that,” he told a crowd of about 200 at […]
While the Obama administration has been busy bailing out irresponsible financial institutions and big business, individual homeowners have been left with little relief, with many forced to file for bankruptcy. About the only relief Obama has doled out for the rest of us is the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP).: Launched in early 2009, it […]
Video streaming by Ustream Welcome to the very first Down the Rabbit Hole with Duchess Rebecca on Right Wing News. Be careful kiddies, for you people new to the show, there’s a content warning. Don’t complain if it’s a little too wild for you!
I often say I’m shocked by something that crosses my computer screen, but that’s not really true. I mean, I probably sort of shocked insofar as I’m surprised that someone has behaved according to type, but in an extreme way, or that something I’ve long assumed would happen actually did happen (or, in a surprising […]
As bad as flooding can make life for farmers, things can always get worse, thanks to Big Government: Bureaucrats have added insult to injury for a corn farmer south of Montreal whose fields have been damaged by near-record flooding. Martin Reid says he’s been forced to buy a fishing licence to remove carp that are […]
As you might recall, our rulers have been scheming to tax us for each mile we drive, in order to defray the cost of their never-ending frivolous spending, to save the polar bears from the imaginary global warming menace, to keep their boot on the neck of the struggling economy, and most importantly, to limit […]
The Atlantic’s Yoni Appelbaum has a troubled little mind. He seems to be an excitable sort, too. I say this because during this 150th anniversary of the American Civil War he strangely sees evil Confederate, German, Nazi, racists at Civil War events. He might want to see a therapist about this. Either that or he’s […]
Tim Rutten is a left-wing, hack writer from L.A. He is always good for contemporary left wing trope but the other day we discovered that he is also good for the sort of uninformed blathering that leftists of his ilk pretend is American history. Chiefly that of America’s religious history and the so-called “wall of […]
At a hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, it was revealed that federal employees spent nearly 3 million hours of official, taxpayer paid time on union activities in 2009. This cost the treasury $129 million, an increase of $8 million over the expenditures in 2008. The report that fueled the hearing (see .pdf) was prepared by […]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: for someone who is supposed to be a lightweight, stupid, and has no chance of being president, Palin sure scares the panty shields off of the liberal media and the GOP intelligentsia, and The Politico is there to make sure they tell us once again that […]
Isn’t it funny how the methods to deal with anthropogenic global warming always seem to revolve around Someone Else Doing Something? Ms. Weaver, a wonderful actress, is over at the Huffington Post giving us A Secret Weapon for Fighting Climate Change: Empowering Women Over the past month, I have been speaking to women in Canada […]
If America loses its AAA rating, the cost to finance the debt will explode. It would represent a running leap into a debt spiral that the U.S. might have trouble pulling out of short of bankruptcy. Moody’s is now warning that the debt limit fight could lead to exactly that sort of disastrous leap. The […]
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. So some intolerant, Christian-hating atheists got a bee in their […]
Liberalism In 120 Seconds: Why Liberals Are So Willing To Bankrupt America